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Show GERARD WILL VISIT GERI1EIPER0R AMERICAN AMBASSADOR INVITED TO CONFERENCE ON THE SUBMARINE QUESTION. German Press Takes More Hopefu' View of Situation, Believing That Understanding May Yet Be Reached and Conflict Avoided. Berlin. James W. Gerard, the American Am-erican ambassador to Germany, left Berlin Thursday night for the "German army headquarters, where he will be received by the German emperor. Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, the German Ger-man imperial chancellor, who has been at the army headquarters, is ex pected to. come to Berlin to prepare Germany's answer to the latest American Amer-ican note. Foreign Minister von Jagow called on Ambassador Gerard at the American Amer-ican embassy twice on Thursday. The Frankfurter Zeitung's Berlin dispatch takes a more hopeful view ol the German-American situation. After referring to the various conferences already held and to be held, it adds: "It is naturally impossible to say what will come from these. But outward out-ward circumstances confirm the opinion opin-ion that hope need not yet be surrendered, surren-dered, that a way to reach an understanding under-standing and avoidance of a conflict between Germany and the United States can be found. "The views of political circles vary slightly regarding the significance of such a conflict in connection with the world war in which we are involved, and the group of politicians and publicists pub-licists who now, as formerly, are endeavoring en-deavoring with all arguments to prove that the conflict is American, and that, as a consequence the submarine warfare war-fare carried on by us without all scruples scru-ples would mean an advantageous development de-velopment for us, is, after all, very small." |